Example sentences for: herculaneum

How can you use “herculaneum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Most popular are the stunning Pompeii mosaics and Herculaneum bronzes on the mezzanine floor.

  • Herculaneum is smaller (only a fraction has been recovered) and less renowned than Pompeii, but its very compactness and better preservation give a more immediate sense of the shape and ambience of a whole Roman town, this one just 7 km (4 1/2 miles) from Vesuvius.

  • Their weapons and armor, along with Pompeii’s more fragile works of art, are exhibited at Naples’ Archaeological Museum (see page 173), which is an invaluable adjunct to your visit to Pompeii or Herculaneum.

  • Vesuvius blotted out the flourishing town along with Herculaneum on 24 August a.d. 79, burying it under 7 m (23 ft) of ash: It is still being slowly excavated.

  • Herculaneum (Ercolano)


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